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Tasty Fragrant Mini Turkey stuffed Cabbage Balls Recipe

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Don’t laugh….OK you can laugh……I tried to make ground turkey balls taste like corned beef and I thought that would be great for a party in meatball sized cabbage balls. I used the spices that I guessed would be good for corned beef but my fatal errors were not using Prague powder (stuff that turns beef pink) and also maybe not using beef. ANYWAYS they came out fragrant and tasty but didn’t taste like corned beef. I made a spice blend and used 1/2 in the meatballs and 1/2 all over the cabbage to flavor it. This recipe takes two days to prepare so the cabbage can stay wrapped on the meatballs.

Ingredients for around 4 servings

1 cabbage

1 quart stock or soup base (vegetable, chicken, or beef)

1 lb ground turkey (I used 99% lean)

2 eggs – beaten

1/2 cup panko

1 Tablespoon (heaping) Better Than Bouillon Vegetable Soup Base reduced salt

1/2 cup already cooked peppers and onions chopped

4 garlic cloves – ground to paste

1/4 cup dark brown sugar – SPICE BLEND

1 + 1/2 teaspoons sea salt – SPICE BLEND

1 1/2 teaspoons ground black pepper – SPICE BLEND

1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon – SPICE BLEND

1/2 teaspoon ground mustard – SPICE BLEND

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves – SPICE BLEND

1/4 teaspoon ground allspice – SPICE BLEND

6 juniper berries – ground to powder – SPICE BLEND

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger – SPICE BLEND

1/2 teaspoon Old Bay Seasoning – SPICE BLEND

Directions

Day One – Either boil or roast the cabbage till soft. Let cool on a counter.

Mix up spice blend. (brown sugar, salt, pepper, cinnamon, mustard, cloves, allspice, juniper berries, ginger, and Old Bay Seasoning. Split this in half. Half of the spice blend goes in a large that you will mix the meatball mix in.

In a large mixing bowl with 1/2 the spice mix add the ground turkey, eggs, panko, garlic, pepper & onions, and mix well.

Assemble

When the cabbage is cool remove one leaf at a time from the core and remove only the very thick veins of the cabbage. Scoop a meatball into the cabbage leaf.

Place this on plastic wrap and twist it into a ball shape.

Repeat till done.

These NEED to sit on the refrigerator over night.

Next day

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.

Remove plastic wrap from meatballs.

Spread out the meatballs for cooking.

Sprinkle remaining spice blend all over.

Cook till well done about 20 minutes give or take.

Tasty Fragrant Mini Turkey Stuffed Cabbage Balls

ENJOY!!!

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NEW WEird DIFFerent Limited and Special Edition Foods Out There March 2024

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There is always something NEW, Weird, Different, Limited, or Special Edition in the wonderful world of food. We never know WTFork we will come across when we shop for food. Uo above is –

LIMITED EDITION – Dragon Marshmallow Lucky Charms….. guess you eat a bowl of it when you do knight school.

DIFFERENT – Lucky Charms Minis…….Guess they make a good ice cream topper if you like them? Maybe the cereal machine got clogged and that is how these mini’s got invented?

DIFFERENT – Reese’s Minis……More ice cream toppers?

DIFFERENT – Cocoa Puffs Minis – guess you eat a mini cereal when you are only a little hungry?

DIFFERENT – Cinnamon Toast Crunch Mini’s…….That Cinnamon Toast Crunch on the box with the tongue is scary looking.

MORE Cinnamon Toast Crunch

WEIRD – Cinnamon Toast Crunch Loaded……with artificial vanilla cream……how good can that be?…..I thought loaded would be something fun like rum…..

DIFFERENT – KitKat Cereal…….I’ll take my chances with the candy…….

NEW – Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes in naturally and artificially flavored chocolate milkshake that also makes milk chocolate flavored……I think I’d rather just eat a bowl of chocolate ice cream.

DIFFERENT and probably LIMITED EDITION – Kellogg’s Froot Loops Wonka naturally flavored and OTHER natural flavors (what on earth can that mean?) flavored that turns your milk berry-licious…..berry berry good?

LIMITED EDITION – General Mills Reese’s Puffs Bunnies – Some people will hop to it to buy it.

LIMITED EDITION – Kellogg;s Peeps Marshmallow flavored cereal with MARSHMALLOWS – Oh Boy1

DIFFERENT – Jell-O jelly beans…….naturally and artificially flavored – Hop to it!

DIFFERENT – Peeps flavored cotton candy…..with ARTIFICIAL flavors….For when you are looking for that FAKE taste.

WEIRD – Platinum Dill Pickle Cashews – Weird! Why would I want my cashews to taste like dill pickles ….unless I was CROCKED!

DIFFERENT – Dunkin’ Chocolates (Who knew?) Donut-flavored filled Jelly Donut Chocolate……I’m going to have to try this one……..

WEIRD – Creative Snacks Co. Strawberry & Yogurt Pretzels……More WEIRD and WHY? I can see maybe yogurt…………..but NOPE for strawberry on a pretzel unless you are like 5 years old.

WEIRD – Outer Space Vodka…..makes me want to puke…….ICK!

DIFFERENT – Country Cravings sesame chips that are honey Pineapple habanero flavored…….I tried them…..they are pretty good but unusually fattening…Oh Well.

DIFFERENT – Farmer’s Pantry Honey Butter Cornbread Crisps….Sounds tasty…Might be?

And there is usually something Oreo…….

LIMITED EDITION Oreo Dirt Cake with Gummy Worm inspired sprinkles? WTFork? Well that’s different! Can you “DIG” the dirt cake with gummy worm inspired sprinkles?

Well that was the New, Weird, Different, Limited, and Special Edition foods out there for March 2024. Who knows WTFork we’ll come across next month.

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Dining Out With DOGS in Las Vegas NV March 2024

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Dining Out With Dogs is just a “Fluff” story about taking my dogs out to eat. It started with my late dog Louie. He always loved going out to eat. When he got elderly he came down with aggressive cancer. We were told that he probably only had three months to live but might make it up to six months. The nicest thing I could do for Louie was to take him out to eat as often as I could. Louie made it another 17 months. Today I take my current dogs out to eat when the weather is right and when I can.

We went to The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill in North Las Vegas. Today I shared the Great Greek Rice Bowl with Salmon with the dogs.

The dogs got to eat salmon, chick peas, and cucumber from this salad.

My husband got a side salad-

and a gyro plate with lemon potatoes.

The dogs enjoyed some gyro meat too!

The dogs always love going to The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill!

6540 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV – 702-749-8582

www.TheGreatGreek.com

The following week I wasn’t there to photo but the dogs got an In and Out Burger while I was doing something else.

The next week we all got to go to SNS Diner BBQ that was featured on Food Network’s Diners Drive Inns and Dives. They used to only have three tables on the dog friendly patio but now have several brand new picnic benches.

My husband started with the gumbo and the dogs got some chicken from it.

The dogs also got to eat hot links, pulled pork bbq, bbq brisket, and macaroni and cheese from my husband’s plate.

They got chicken and fries from my chicken taco platter.

The Dogs always love going to SNS Diner BBQ!

SNS Diner BBQ – 702-269-9696

3229 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV

www.SNSDiner.com

Can’t believe it got cold again. Took the dogs to In and Out Burger for a quick burger stop. They didn’t seem to mind.

Well that was dining out with dogs for March 2024. We hope that you’ve enjoyed and we also hope to see you next month!

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In Memory of Louie 5-5-2001 – 3-3-2017

Eight Turn Crepe N. Las Vegas NV – Savory & Sweet Rice Crepes, Coffee, Tea, Bubble Tea, Gelato – Worth a Try!

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Eight Turn Crepe recently opened in North Las Vegas Nevada. They are a small casual restaurant that offers Japanese style rice crepes stuffed sweet or savory. They also offer Gelato, coffees, bubble tea, and smoothies.

You order and pay at the counter.

Someone calls your name when your order is ready.

I tried a Chicken Thai Crepe (grilled chicken, greens, cucumbers, carrots, peanuts, sesame seeds and Spicy Cilantro Thai Sauce. My husband tried the Philly Cheesesteak Crepe (Philly Steak, roasted peppers & onions, cheddar cheese, and chipotle aioli sauce (left off by request)).

I try my Chicken Thai Crepe.

The rice crepe is very good but this is FORKING HARD to eat without a fork and knife and plate. I’m dropping stuff all over the place. The chicken is moist but also is kinda spongy……It’s tasty but doesn’t remind me of Thai food…..I’ll go with something different next time.

The Philly Steak Crepe is closer to what it is suppose to be.

Steak, cheese, peppers, and onions…….It’s good but is a lot lighter than a real cheese steak with a lot less filling…..

For us this is our closest gelato shop so we stopped here already three times for gelato.

So far we tried single scoops.

Strawberry

Good …………..but not comparable to the AMAZING strawberry gelato from Fabio On Fire from Peoria AZ. But The FORKING Truth is that NOBODY’s anywhere can compare to Fabio’s.

Pistachio

Creamy and rich like ice cream. Maybe the freshest plumpest pistachios I ever had anywhere in a dessert but the ice cream taste more like almond than pistachio.

chocolate

A nice deep chocolate flavor

banana

Rich and creamy with a natural banana flavor

Eight Turn Crepe

Worth a Try!

Eight Turn Crepe

6520 N Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV

702-780-5720

www.eightturncrepe.com

Every THING is subject to change.

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Leticia’s Cocina & Cantina at Santa Fe Station Las Vegas NV – Worth a Try!

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Leticia’s Cocina & Cantina is a Mexican Restaurant and Bar located in the Santa Fe Station Casino/Hotel in North/West Las Vegas Nevada.

Here’s the cantina.

And here’s the main dining room.

Whatever you order they start you off with complimentary chips, salsa, and chorizo bean dip.

For dinner I tried the Pescado Al Mojo De Ajo. This came with poblano rice casserole and a mixed green salad.

I’ll be honest I mean tell The FORKING Truth. This fish is just ok……tonight……Only one piece tasted fishy…..maybe I just got some of the bloodline?……..But the sauce is FORKING AMAZING! OMG it’s FORKING SCRUMPTIOUS! It’s garlic-ee…It’s citrus-ee…it’s also spicy…It’s so YUM I could drink it…..That poblano white rice casserole in the upper right corner is also super yummy delicious! Then there also is a generously sized salad on the side and also tortillas (corn or flour) This seemed like a very large platter too. I couldn’t eat it all. Next time I’ll make sure to split it in half.

My husband got the Steak Ranchero.

It tastes a whole lot better than it looks. It’s a bowl of carne asada, caramelized onions, poblano strips, jalapeños, corn wheels, ranchero sauce and tortillas on the side…..I do have to say that the carne asada wasn’t as tender as I like it to be but was flavored far better than from most places that I have been to……It’s flavored really very well.

Leticia’s Cocina & Cantina at Santa Fe Station Casino/Hotel is –

Worth a Try!

4949 N Rancho Dr Las Vegas NV – 702-515-4318

www.LeticiasCocina.com

www.StationCasinos.com

Every THING is subject to change.

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Cheese Blintzes Recipe

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Cheese Blintzes are crepes that are usually filled with fruit, farmer’s cheese, or potato and then fried in butter. Some people like them sweet and other people like them slightly savory. Some people serve them like dessert with powdered sugar and whipped cream. Other people like them topped with sour cream.

I was shopping at Sprouts and farmer’s cheese was at an incredible price that I could not pass up so I decided to make cheese blintzes today. Latter I went back to Sprouts and purchased fruit to make a fruit sauce for the blintzes.

It’s best to make the cheese filling the day before so you can drain some liquid out of it.

Anyways my recipe made me 11 crepes so I will say 11 servings. I did have maybe enough cheese left over for one more crepe.

Ingredients for around 11 servings

4 eggs

1 cup water

6 Tablespoons sweet butter – melted

2 Tablespoons Greek Yogurt

couple drops vanilla extract

1 cup flour

2 Tablespoons sugar

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

2 Tablespoons butter – to fry blintzes with

2 cups farmer’s cheese – for filling

1 cup whipped cream cheese – for filling

1/4 cup sugar – for filling

1 egg – for filling

1/2 lemon – just the fresh juice – or more to taste – for filling

1 teaspoon vanilla – or less to taste – for filling

pinch sea salt – for filling

Directions

Make the filling first.

In a medium bowl combine the cheeses, sugar, egg, lemon juice, vanilla, and salt. This goes in a paper towel lined colander over night. The top you can loosely plastic wrap. In the morning I changed the towel so it could drain some more. Keep refrigerated till ready to fill blintzes.

Make the crepes. In a large bowl combine the eggs, water, melted butter, yogurt, vanilla, flour, sugar, and salt.

Melt 1/2 the butter on medium heat in a non stick pan.

Use a serving spoon to measure the batter. One serving spoon seemed to be the perfect amount of batter for my pan. You don’t just pour the batter in you have to turn the pan on its side to shape the crepe around the pan………..Once you get a nice round crepe you wait till it looked cooked and flip it and leave it on heat maybe 1/2 a minute more.

I had a pan lined with plastic wrap to collect the crepes. Between each crepe I used more plastic wrap so they wouldn’t stick together.

Repeat till done and add butter as needed.

When you are ready to make the blintzes.

Either pipe or spoon out the cheese.

You roll it up like a burrito.

Bottom and top of crepe over the cheese.

Now you roll till rolled up.

Repeat till done.

Fry the crepes in butter on medium heat on both sides till slightly browned.

You can enjoy now or add sour cream or preserves. Some people like them sweet with powdered sugar……

I made a mixed fruit sauce. It was a pint of blueberries, a pound of strawberries, and 10 ounces of pitted cherries. I added 2 ounces of butter and about 1/2 a cup of sugar. I mixed it together and this went in a 350 oven in two pans for around an hour.

Cheese Blintzes

Enjoy!!!!

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My Forking Thoughts on Sprouts Hot Honey Beet Chips – OMG YUM!

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I saw these Hot Honey Beet Chips at my local Sprouts Grocery. They were on sale and sounded interesting somI picked them up.

I try one…..OMG WOW! This is delicious…….It’s thin….It’s shattering crisp but light as air…..It’s slightly spicy……..IIt’s slightly smokey ………t’s almost sweet…….It’s just delicious flavors…..It’s WAY BETTER than any potato chip…..I could easily eat this whole package…..WOW! What a great surprise these Sprouts Hot Honey Beet Chips are!!!!!…..

Hot Honey Beet Chips from Sprouts Grocery are FORKING DELICIOUS!

Sprouts Hot Honey Beet Chips

I’ll be out of these soon. I hope Sprouts has more!

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I Thai Kitchen Las Vegas NV – Worth a Try! – Might run Spicy!

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I Thai Kitchen is a casual Thai and Asian Restaurant located in North/West Las Vegas Nevada.

We started out by sharing the pot stickers.

Here the dumplings seem house made and are fried crispy. They are stuffed with moist nicely seasoned white meat chicken. On the side is a spicy soy based sauce that is tasty.

I tried the green curry salmon with heat level 6 out of ten.

I received an ENORMOUS Bowl of green curry sauce embellished with eggplant, zucchini, bell peppers, bamboo shouts and fried salmon cubes with white rice on the side. This is enough for THREE people………….. The flavors are delicious. The heat level is off…..This is spicier than a number 6….This is as spicy or maybe spicier than my husband’s #8. The salmon is different….fried in cubes…..It’s not bad but what you’d expect from a Thai Restaurant. I’d go with chicken next time.

My husband ordered the Chicken Pad Kapow (Spicy Basil) #8 out of ten for heat.

It’s good but different. The flavors are great. It’s also nicely infused with basil. As far as I can remember I never had this dish made with ground chicken before…..I have had the hand chopped versions but never ground before.

Portions run LARGE. Prices are reasonable. Sometimes the food runs spicier.

I Thai Kitchen is Worth a Try!

5840 W Craig Rd Las Vegas NV

702-515-0378

www.IThaiKitchenLasVegas.com

Every THING is subject to change.

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My Trip to Saginaw’s Deli at Circa Hotel/Casino Las Vegas NV – Hits & Misses

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Saginaw’s Deli is a Michigan-Jewish-Style Deli with a location in the Circa Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas Nevada. It’s very casual here. You order and pay at the counter. You grab a number and seat yourself.

Someone runs out your order when it is ready. The Las Vegas location is open 24 hours a day seven days a week and also serves breakfast at any hour.

Several Saginaw family photos decorate a wall.

Paul Saginaw. also is the co-founder of Zingerman’s Deli. Deli meats come from Greenberg’s in Detroit.

You use the nearby casino restrooms here.

Take a selfie if you like.

We gave Paul’s Onion Tower a try.

The onion rings are breaded nicely and don’t seem oily at all.

The ranch dressing and the Russian dressing are pretty bland. The onion ring doesn’t fit in the dip cups so you have to break your onion ring to get dip on it.

We shared the smoked salmon platter.

This came with an enormous amount of capers. It doesn’t taste bad but the fish is sort of dried out. The bagel is very heavy and dense. They garnished the plate with cucumbers, red onion, and tomato slices.

We also shared the #4 Ben Sherman’s corned beef and pastrami sandwich that came with house made chips and a pickle.

The house made chips are very good……..Good pickle………The sandwich is different than what I’m used to………It’s made with grilled and toasted Pullman bread. The corned beef inside is very good….I think it’s the Russian Dressing that is weird here today because the Russian Dressing here doesn’t taste like Russian Dressing because it’s white and only a little something more than mayonnaise.

The corned beef was good today but I didn’t care for their pastrami. The pastrami was tough today and had flavors that I didn’t care for…But the corned beef was very good.

That was my trip to Saginaw’s Deli at Circa Hotel/Casino – To me it was Hits & Misses your experience may indeed differ.

8 Fremont St Las Vegas NV – 702-247-2258

www.CircaLasVegad.com

Every THING is subject to change.

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Wexler’s Deli serves FORKING GREAT Pastrami & FORKING GREAT Lox – Worth a Fork! FANTABULOUS Dishes!

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Wexler’s Deli is one of the FEW Delis in the country that cures, smokes, and slices, their own meats and fish. There is a Wexler’s Deli is a small counter in the food hall called Proper Eats Food Hall in the Aria Resort Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada.

My husband bought a pastrami sandwich to take out. We shared it for lunch the next day.

It’s not pretty and it’s on soft west coast style bread…………and it came with a deli pickle spear.

BUT THE PASTRAMI IS SUPERB (insert angels singing)

I don’t think I ever got pastrami from any place that was this FORKING GREAT before.

It’s flavorful. It’s moist. The meat melts in your mouth. It’s so good that it doesn’t need mustard.

The pastrami is so good that I can forgive them for west coast type bread…..Besides they are California Based.

We went back to try it again and to try their own cured lox.

Similar experience but different…….FORKING AMAZING fresh silky smooth melt-in-your-mouth lox……..with sliced raw onions, better than most cream cheese, and not the best but also not the worst bagel…..and a good pickle spear. There is a good possibility that this might be the best lox that you can find in Las Vegas so it’s Worth a Fork to me.

Tried the pastrami again.

It’s still amazing and so far still the best that can be found in Las Vegas but this today is from a leaner part of the brisket that eats different……It’s still contains a lot of fat but doesn’t have the fat running threw it.

I think if you look close then you can understand the difference. (below was the first pastrami I tried from Wexler’s)

Still either sandwich has pastrami that is superior to other I’ve tried here so far so it’s still certainly Worth a Fork!

Wexler’s Pastrami and Lox is Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Wexler’s Deli – Proper Eats Food Hall – Aria Resorts Resort & Casino

3730 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-590-8664

www.ProperEatsLasVegas.com/Wexlers

www.WexlersDeli.com

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